Adventures Among the Red Indians

timent. He turned his head dazedly, and gave a start of astonishment. Under a tree nea

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h the rest; and now he could see that those of his comrades who were not wounded had their hands bound, and that eve

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thing, them as got away on horseback'll soon take the news to Wayne, so if these varmints don't to

hongs that bound them were handed up to one or other of the horsemen, and they were soon being dragged forward at a brisk walking pace. Munson indicated that he could not walk far till his wound had received attention,

ing; they conversed very little among themselves, and Munson was riding too far away from his comrades to be able to communicate with them. As nearly as he could guess by the light, it must have been after five o'clock, and he had eaten nothing since midday. He signed to his companion th

ping. By dark they arrived at an encampment where there were at least sixty wigwams pitched. The horses were pulled up, 24 the prisoner's feet were freed, and he was ordered to dismou

, the three Indians helping themselves in a similar manner. After a while, voices and the tramp of more horses became audible, and about fifty Indians, seemingly of the same tribe as those

crawling, inch by inch, down to the water-side; yet, with his shoulder in its present condition, he could neither swim nor-supposing he should have the luck to find a canoe

ey conducted him towards the largest of the wigwams, outside which sat the chief of the tribe, solemnly smoking. After an interval of dead silence, that personage gave a little shout, and all the men in the cam

e he was doing his duty; a man of his calling must expect to meet it any day of the week; indeed, how many of his old comrades-i

e than death-to scalp him, in fact-an indignity which only a man who had lived all his life in the neighbourhood of Indians could fully appreciate. He wriggled himself free and, springing up again, kicked out fiercely at his tormentors. For this they seemed to